[ alina's surprised little exhale crackles through, before it settles into a wry: ]

Sometimes I forget how much you know about each of us. Who we are. Where we came from.

[ calling it unnerving would be doing it a disservice, after the invasion of her privacy in the little palace — after kirigan's deceit and genya's spying, but ... she presses past the small worry, lodging itself in her chest. ]

How did that one appear in your database? From one of the others here?